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Mortalis
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Featuring: Jude McManus; Salvaiso
448 pages
ISBN: 0812977335
EAN: 9780812977332
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Thriller Psychological | Thriller Political
El Salvador: America’s great Cold War success story and the
model for Iraq’s fledgling democracy–if one ignores the
grinding poverty, the corruption, the spiraling crime, and
a murder rate ranked near the top in the hemisphere. This
is where Jude McManus works as an executive protection
specialist, currently assigned to an American engineer
working for a U.S. consortium. Ten years before, at age seventeen, he saw his father and
two Chicago cop colleagues arrested for robbing street
dealers. The family fell apart in the scandal’s wake, his
disgraced dad died under suspicious circumstances, and Jude
fled Chicago to join the army and forge a new life. Now the past returns when one of his father’s old pals
appears. The man is changed–he’s scarred, regretful, self-
aware–and he helps Jude revisit the past with a forgiving
eye. Then he asks a favor–not for himself, but for the
third member of his dad’s old crew. Even though it’s ill-considered, Jude agrees, thinking he
can oblige the request and walk away, unlike his father.
But he underestimates the players and the stakes and he
stumbles into a web of Third World corruption and personal
betrayal where everything he values–and everyone he loves–
is threatened. And only the greatest of sacrifices will
save them.
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